Example sentences of "[pers pn] had live in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the fifties ignorance about Black people was rife : I remember being asked on many occasions , as a child , if I had lived in the jungle , if my parents ate cat food or even people . |
| 2 | I admit , you and I did rather live our years together in the shadow of Jean-Claude , as I had lived in the shadow of Montaine . |
| 3 | I had lived in the midst of the Amazons without knowing it . |
| 4 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 5 | The kettle began to boil , and she completed the ritual of tea-making , finally standing the pot on a porcelain plate with Windsor Castle painted on it , mounted on sterling-silver trivets , and crowning it with a tea cosy knitted by Matey back in the days when she had lived in the Cochranes country house , now almost derelict since Stair 's expensive debauchery had impoverished the estate . |
| 6 | She had lived in the States for several years but she still retained her British accent , though she often maintained that she loathed England and would never return to it . |
| 7 | She had lived in the flat for about six months and , according to neighbours , there had been a number of disturbances to which police had been called . |
| 8 | When she married she had to live in the country and , instead of bemoaning what she 'd lost in the way of concerts and the theatre , she enjoyed what was on offer . |
| 9 | The governors of royal colonies , appointed by the king , were expected to maintain a rather dignified and aloof attitude and it was thought that they might find it hard to do this if they had lived in the colony as subordinates or as private citizens in the past . |
| 10 | The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years . |
| 11 | This rather vague account satisfied and stimulated the interest of most people ; fieldworkers began asking interviewees how long they had lived in the area and moved on to discuss their general attitudes and background . |
| 12 | Without the help of the Pope , his royal father had made Zacco Archbishop of Nicosia when he was thirteen , and he had lived in the Archbishop 's Palace with Cropnose for years . |
| 13 | Rose was anxious , feeling that he had lived in the stone house with too much responsibility for too long . |
| 14 | He had lived in the caravan now for just over two years , supported by a research grant from his northern university to study the effect of the Industrial Revolution on the rural industries of East Anglia . |